Ugh, It’s That Dweeb from the AV Squad

“Hey, Stacy, I noticed you missed Civics class again; if you want, I could help you study for the mid-term because Mr. Dorfman says it’s one-third of your grade and it really won’t be any trouble because I took really good notes and it’s OK if you come over tonight even though it’s D&D night and my mom can make s’mores…” (etc.)

Oh that dear little nubbin of a critter. He will grow up to be a wealthy software magnate while Stacy will marry the captain of the football team and become the prettiest stripper at the bar near her trailer park. Not that there is anything wrong with strippers or trailer parks . . . *shifty eyes*

sad but true fact: I too looked like that kid all the way through high school – monobrow, teeth, hair in braids that looked remarkable like this kid’s ears- the whole kid and kaboodle- in fact without the intensive intervention of beauty industry professionals I would STILL look like this kid. sadder but also true: I actually like being a science nerd and still do calculus FOR FUN (I know, I need rehab, but there you go)

[If that’s truly true, I may need to get in touch w/you from time to time… – Ed.]

In re all you peeps kleverer than moi in math topix…..
while **I, myself AIN’T GOT NO** skillz in math topix….it did always seem to me (as I watched other peeps in skuul), that just about every student had some leaning ability or aptitude toward either the Algebra course *OR* toward the Geometry course.

Certainly es gibt Math Genii (pl/ “Geniuses”???) who can easily do, & enjoy,
both areas….jus’ sayin’ that it always seemed tuh me, that peeps generally leaned remarkably into one camp or the other camp.

Sigh…I wish I’d been that Kid. I was a dorky would-be science nerd in the body of Dolly Parton. I got ostracized by EVERYBODY. Too bright and socially incompetent for the pretty kids, the science kids only respected girls who they could give honorary boy status to (which wasn’t going to happen with D-cup from the age of 14), and the ‘socially incompetent and shy’ bit kept me out of the art/drama clique. Gods, I hated school.

it sounds like you & I had the exact same existence (with the slight substitution of grammar & vocab nerd here, instead of Science skillz)!!! (yup, same “body development issues” as well!)
Ain’t it crazy, how we had to wait for Adulthood, to find a few folks suddenly who said “Glad to know ya” and find out, that these folks MEAN it????

Actually, Theadosia and and resriechan, you have lots of company. It happens to just about every girl who develops early and, er, ‘generously.’ It’s just the opposite for boys: reaching puberty early gets them all kinds of social rewards, and it’s the late bloomers who are seen negatively. You can thank our misogynistic society, where becoming a man is ‘good’ and becoming a woman is ‘bad.’ There has also been research that shows the late blooming boys become nicer, more sensitive guys–but it’s also thought that that research may be a bit skewed, since it was conducted by researchers who had been dweeby late bloomers themselves.😉

You know that somewhat dizzying feeling when someone brings together a whole bunch of facts and patterns that you’ve observed and then describes the underlying framework connecting all of it, which you have previously been groping towards but hadn’t quite crystallized yourself yet? That.

@Fluffy

The depths of Middle Earth. Seriously, I live ten minutes from Rivendell and twenty minutes drive from Helm’s Deep. Bits of them anyway.

I just keep coming back to see this precious little gert!!! Just so skinny — I imagine him with a touch of asthma and a runny nose that he keeps wiping on the back of one of his teeny hooves. I’m headed to Africa in two weeks and hope that I see many of these little kiddoos!

When the kid grows up and becomes a rich software magnate like Dash suggests, the former captain of the football team just MIGHT be allowed to clean the windshield of the kid’s Mercedes. That’s if the kid ever finds himself near the trailer park where the former captain and Stacey live.

Exactly what I was thinking. I mean, although Schadenfreude in all forms should be frowned up, I just can’t help but feel delighted at the thought of the geeks and nerds succeeding in life while the jerks who derided them spend the rest of their lives scrubbing toilets. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside!

I’ll tell you what, I looked up the geeky guy who wrote me love notes in eighth grade (he also used to get picked on after school), and it turns out he grew into a big handsome guy. I wouldn’t go to the dance with him when I was 13, but now we have a date next friday night and i am super duper twitterpated. Moral of the story: give geeks a chance.

Goats are awful things as adults. They will eat the inside of your pockets out…They will eat ANYTHING.
The babehs, however, especially a babeh Nubian is really CUTE and when you have a babeh Nubian dipped in chocolate sauce (adorable brown babeh) that makes the kid nearly edible…At least for keeses, not lunch or dinner. Just keeses.

*sigh* I just don’t unnerstand it – my mama has a degree in Accounting. My oldest daughter was doing college-level math when she was in the 9th grade. My youngest is doing high school math in the 6th grade.

ButtaRumCake… if you can make change, you are doing better than me. to my “wordy” brain, it always seems like I’m counting backwards somehow, and then my mind tries to twist it forwards, and I get all confused. I usually can divide by twos, tho🙄 not always. Sigh.

Always dated the geek-nerd men. You know that saying about never knowing what is going on with the quiet ones? Can I just say, Hot, HoT, HOT???? High school, 1976–deflowered by Latin Club president (soory about the TMI), college–lived 2 passion-blinded years with DnD enthusiast, and married a NASA rocked scientist (not even kidding!). Been married 23 years and still being naughty in the back seat! VIVA LA GEEKS!

Yep–we have 2 geeklets–one with masters in European History and another in med school. The female geeklet (history nut) actually asked for a trip to visit Romania for a graduation present! Not a car, not a week in Cancun–Romania!! I will say that the male geeklet is somewhat normal–he actually got a C once……….we don’t talk about it publically………..and he does listen to metal music………must be a defective gene somewhere……..

This is a sometimes comical specialty at CuteOverload & its regular audience members. When numerous CuteO audience members find some detail of an animal especially charming or quirky (pattern in the fur, cute ears for example), we sometimes request a close-up on that detail from the original photo.

Fortunately, the Editors of CuteOverload are kind & sometimes indulge our Requests for Closeup Cuteness! The term is from the verb “to enhance”. In this case, people are enjoying the puppy’s tongue & have requested a close-up or an “enhanced” image

I was a popular nerd I’m high school but I wasted my time trying to date all the bad boys and the jocks. We never had anything in common. I married a nerd and I wouldn’t trade him for a million jocks. He’s the best! Nerds really are awesome.

@resriechan : I was never super great at any math (I was more of an English/History gal myself) I was ALWAYS better at Algebra (I made As in Algebra). Geometry and I weren’t friends. In fact, I still don’t “mind” algebra so much. It definitely makes sense to me. And I never took calc because I didn’t have to. And I never want to have to.

As for this little goateeeee, I LOVE the teef and I would be delighted to come over for smores on one condition: Can I actually join your D&D game? Kthx!

xandria21: Perhaps Resrie’s theory is correct? Because I’m just the opposite of you…algebra made no sense to me and I struggled with it but geometry was fun to me. As was logic later in college. hmmmmmmm. interesting.

This actually made my stomach flip, because I, like lots of others who’ve already commented, was a geek and a bit socially tragic. Mind you, I’m now a Dr., and the guy I had a crush on now works in a car parts department and started loosing his hair at 25…

The toof-hance cuts out one of the best parts of the picture, which is the knobby knees. I can just imagine this goat tripping over his own spindly legs as he tries to get the the unattainably-cool girl goat. So cute.